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# A series of limericks about Tracer, because why not
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/series-limericks-tracer-not/
- Published: 2016-08-12T13:30:43.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-12T16:32:33.000Z
- Description: We love Overwatch. So we assembled 22 of our best writers and set them to work—a writer to jump into the skin (or robotic shell) of each character. The result is 22 odes. You can use the “Overwatch odes” tag to leaf through them all, or use the handy list at the bottom of this post. /// I’m sure num
- Author: David Chandler
- Tags: News, overwatch, overwatch odes, tracer, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

*We love* Overwatch*. So we assembled 22 of our best writers and set them to work—a writer to jump into the skin (or robotic shell) of each character. The result is 22 odes. You can use the [“](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/)*[Overwatch](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/)*[ odes” tag](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/) to leaf through them all, or use the handy list at the bottom of this post.*

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I’m sure numerous articles are written

‘Bout *Overwatch*’s most lovable Briton.

But this one’s in verse,

Though I’ll keep it quite terse

So it doesn’t come across weird and smitten.

Tracer’s story begins when a technical complication

Caused her to suffer a temporal palpitation.

Her time stream had gone wonky

Until a scientist monkey

Built her an outfit for chronal regulation.

There’s simply no one to outpace her

That story’s just setup, of course.

(And full disclosure: a fan wiki’s my source)

It’s her speed on the map

That matters most in a scrap.

Hell, she’s the heart of the Overwatch force.

She’s not one for a slow life of leisure.

Run-and-gun is her claim to pleasure.

She blinks from here to there,

Turns back time á la Cher,

Dropping quips and bodies in equal measure.

She’s character-built to harass

Or to dart through defenses and trespass

Over enemy lines

And lay down some pulse mines

To be a general pain in the ass.

In fact that’s what I dig about Tracer.

She’s a pest, getting players to chase her

‘Round the map all distracted

While their cargo’s extracted.

There’s simply no one to outpace her.

![tracer-overwatch-hero](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tracer-overwatch-hero.jpg)

Unless, of course, she gets caught unawares

By an ambush, or worse, one of those snares

That Junkrat can lay down.

And if a turret’s around,

Tracer hasn’t the sincerest of prayers.

Nevertheless, her abilities outshine

Any other favorite of mine.

And if I could control time,

I would undo this rhyme

And end with a more clever line.

///

## **Offensive Heroes**

**Genji** – [Genji is with you](https://www.killscreen.com/genji-is-with-you/)  
**McCree** – [Who you kidding? McCree is *Overwatch*‘s true shooter](https://www.killscreen.com/mccree/)  
**Pharah** – [Don’t play fair, play Pharah, exclusively](https://www.killscreen.com/dont-play-fair-play-pharah-exclusively/)  
**Reaper** – [In defense of Reaper, the patron saint of mall-goth teens](https://www.killscreen.com/defense-reaper-patron-saint-mall-goth-teens/)  
**Soldier 76** – [Soldier 76 is here to make everyone else look good](https://www.killscreen.com/soldier-76-make-everyone-else-look-good/)  

## **Defensive Heroes**

**Bastion** – [Bastion is the machine pointed at the world](https://www.killscreen.com/bastion-machine-pointed-world/)  
**Hanzo** – [Hanzo “looks like a good man,” my Japanese mom raves](https://www.killscreen.com/hanzo-look-like-good-man-japanese-mom-raves/)  
**Junkrat** – [I have fallen in love with Junkrat](https://www.killscreen.com/fallen-love-junkrat/)  
**Mei** – [Here comes Mei, the badass nerd hell-bent on revenge](https://www.killscreen.com/comes-mei-badass-nerd-hell-bent-revenge/)  
**Torbjörn** – [An ode to hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Torbjörn](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-hard-working-salt-earth-torbjorn/)  
**Widowmaker** – [Widowmaker made a widow of me](https://www.killscreen.com/widowmaker-made-widow/)

## **Tank Heroes**

**D.Va** – [An ode to D.Va, the sassiest dream girl this side of *Overwatch*](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-d-va-sassiest-dream-girl-side-overwatch/)  
**Reinhardt** – [An ode to Reinhardt, tortured scion of a broken land](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-reinhardt-tortured-scion-broken-land/)  
**Roadhog** – [An ode to Roadhog is an ode to ugliness](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-roadhog-ode-ugliness/)  
**Winston** – [Winston, the Science Gorilla, is in charge](https://www.killscreen.com/winston-science-gorilla-charge/)  
**Zarya** – [Zarya makes Mother Russia her bitch](https://www.killscreen.com/zarya-makes-mother-russia-bitch/)

## **Support Heroes**

**Ana** – [Ana is the protective mother we all want](https://www.killscreen.com/ana-protective-mother-want/)  
**Lucio** – [Inside the idiot party-bubble of Lucio](https://www.killscreen.com/inside-idiot-party-bubble-lucio/)  
**Mercy** – [Mercy is the most terrifying character in *Overwatch*](https://www.killscreen.com/mercy-terrifying-character-overwatch/)  
**Symmetra** – [Go ahead, sleep on Symmetra](https://www.killscreen.com/go-ahead-sleep-symmetra/)  
**Zenyatta** – [Praise be to Zenyatta, then chill the heck out](https://www.killscreen.com/praise-zenyatta-chill-heck/)